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From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 3c509 Cards
Date: 27 Jul 1994 22:37:05 +0200
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In article <john.72.775154941@gab.unt.edu>,
John Booth <john@gab.unt.edu> wrote:
> My 3c509 card drops off the net intermittently--a shutdown -r now will bring 
> it back up.  I heard there were some problems with the 3c509 driver is this 
> one of them or just a new one?  I installed a ne2000 card in and it stays on 
> the net, but now I get network buffer overflows (I heard adding the gateway 
> option may help/fix this--any other suggestions out there?)  About the 
> 3c509 card--it's supposed to be just about the fastest nic out there and I 
> got a pair of them for a very good price ($99) I would very much like to use 
> it reliably.

Extract from the KNOWNBUGS file from the FreeBSD distribution :

[...]
/sys/i386/isa/if_ep.c
	The 3c509 driver will hang under heavy network loads and take your
	machine off the network.  (Though the machine will continue to run with
	no network facilities)

	Workaround: Try a "ifconfig ep0 down" and a "ifconfig ep0 up"
	to get it running again.

[...]
$Id: KNOWNBUGS,v 1.16 1994/06/04 10:39:55 jkh Exp $
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Ollivier ROBERT                                           roberto@hsc.fr.net
Hervé Schauer Consultants                Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net
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